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In landscape mode on mobile there is a bar that takes up 20% (at a guess) of the screen just to contain a single icon. Does everyone browse mobile in portrait?

by retox 9y ago

In landscape mode on mobile there is a bar that takes up 20% (at a guess) of the screen just to contain a single icon. Does everyone browse mobile in portrait? My eyes are horizontally arranged.

ricardobeat 9y ago
No such problem on Opera Mini (which doesn't do complex JS or position: fixed :)
sugarpile 9y ago
Yes, everyone browses in portrait
ivanhoe 9y ago
How do you hold your book, in landscape or portrait mode? Pages in almost all scripts are traditionally always in portrait orientation.
- retox 9y ago
  A book can only be oriented portrait, I don't have a choice.
- gurkendoktor 9y ago
  Pages are also traditionally larger than a cellphone. On a 4"/5" smartphone, text in landscape orientation is much closer in font size and line length to a normal book than in portrait orientation.
algesten 9y ago
There's a reason for reading text in columns – it's just easier! Everything from newspapers to books do it. And it's quite interesting to try layout a text width wise. Just paste some long text into an html-page or text editor and then go full screen width. I find it almost impossible to keep track of where I'm looking. I'm much slower reading like that.
- retox 9y ago
  I wrote a script a long time ago that turned a chunk of text into a pseudo Babylonian text. At the end of the line the letters of each word reversed so your eyes could scan back and forth to reduce eye strain and losing place. I thought it was quite readable and beneficial but others didn't.
  - dr_zoidberg 9y ago
    This needs further explanation, ideally a picture showing the effect. I don't really think I've understood what your script did.
    - deleted 9y ago
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    - jankins 9y ago
      I believe he means it would rewrite Line one Line two As: Line one owt eniL To save your eyes the travel distance to the line origin in order to read the next line.
      - retox 9y ago
        Yes, mostly like this. Not sure why I thought it had anything to do with Babylon... My script had two modes, the one above and a different type which I preferred. The first line was as normal reversed was second the then but only the order of the the of letters the not words, words.
        dr_zoidberg 9y ago
        Thanks, now I did get it. Guess for me it was easier seeing it than reading a description!
    - zem 9y ago
      the technical term is "boustrophedon" (etymologically "in the manner of an ox ploughing a field"), google it up for some nice examples
dEnigma 9y ago
I mostly browse in portrait, unless the page has a weird layout; and I hardly ever see people browsing in landscape mode, but this is of course all anecdotal.

by retox 9y ago

In landscape mode on mobile there is a bar that takes up 20% (at a guess) of the screen just to contain a single icon. Does everyone browse mobile in portrait? My eyes are horizontally arranged.

ricardobeat 9y ago

No such problem on Opera Mini (which doesn't do complex JS or position: fixed :)

sugarpile 9y ago

Yes, everyone browses in portrait

ivanhoe 9y ago

How do you hold your book, in landscape or portrait mode? Pages in almost all scripts are traditionally always in portrait orientation.

retox 9y ago
A book can only be oriented portrait, I don't have a choice.
gurkendoktor 9y ago
Pages are also traditionally larger than a cellphone. On a 4"/5" smartphone, text in landscape orientation is much closer in font size and line length to a normal book than in portrait orientation.

algesten 9y ago

There's a reason for reading text in columns – it's just easier! Everything from newspapers to books do it. And it's quite interesting to try layout a text width wise. Just paste some long text into an html-page or text editor and then go full screen width. I find it almost impossible to keep track of where I'm looking. I'm much slower reading like that.

retox 9y ago
I wrote a script a long time ago that turned a chunk of text into a pseudo Babylonian text. At the end of the line the letters of each word reversed so your eyes could scan back and forth to reduce eye strain and losing place. I thought it was quite readable and beneficial but others didn't.
- dr_zoidberg 9y ago
  This needs further explanation, ideally a picture showing the effect. I don't really think I've understood what your script did.
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
  - jankins 9y ago
    I believe he means it would rewrite Line one Line two As: Line one owt eniL To save your eyes the travel distance to the line origin in order to read the next line.
    - retox 9y ago
      Yes, mostly like this. Not sure why I thought it had anything to do with Babylon... My script had two modes, the one above and a different type which I preferred. The first line was as normal reversed was second the then but only the order of the the of letters the not words, words.
      - dr_zoidberg 9y ago
        Thanks, now I did get it. Guess for me it was easier seeing it than reading a description!
  - zem 9y ago
    the technical term is "boustrophedon" (etymologically "in the manner of an ox ploughing a field"), google it up for some nice examples

dEnigma 9y ago

I mostly browse in portrait, unless the page has a weird layout; and I hardly ever see people browsing in landscape mode, but this is of course all anecdotal.